Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Bible "Beware the man of a single book." — Bertrand Russell
Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On The Art of Diplomacy "After 9/11, NYC has already a big expensive hole downtown. Do they really need another on the East side of the island? Moreover, NYC already has the Mafia, so they are up to their limit in the corruption department, too. So who needs a United Nations? Not us and not the USA." — Barbara Stanley, "United Nations Outs Itself—Dangerous Marxist Money-Hole in NYC," bluestarbase.org, 3-7-03.
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "My fellow Americans, I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." — Ronald Reagan, unaware a radio microphone was on {This is quoted in all three of my quote sources. Reagan seemed incapable of separating Russia, the Soviet Union and Communism, all three having unique components in the cold war. I personally give the Pope and the Polish Labor Unions much more credit for the fall of Communism that I could ever credit to Reagan.}
Thought for the day: "The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag."
{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}
NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY
Dark Lunar Eclipse
Credit & Copyright: Martin Pugh
Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation
EVENTS
● 31 B. C. E. - Origin of Era of Augustus
● 30 B.C.E. - Cleopatra, the seventh queen of Egypt, committed suicide.
● 257 St Sixtus II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
● 1146 - European leaders outlawed the crossbow.
● 1574 - Guru Ram Das became the Fourth Sikh Guru/Master.
● 1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
● 1637 - Colonial religious teacher Anne Hutchinson, 46, was charged with "traducing (i.e., degrading) the ministry" and was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Moving the following year to Rhode Island, then to New York, Anne and her family were killed by Indians in 1643.
● 1645 - American Indians and the Dutch made a peace treaty at New Amsterdam. New Amsterdam later became known as New York.
● 1682 - William Penn sailed from England and later established the colony of Pennsylvania in America.
● 1770 - Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The exercised and experienced Christian, by the knowledge he has gained of his own heart and the many difficulties he has had to struggle with, acquires a skill and compassion in dealing with others.
● 1780 - General Benedict Arnold secretly promised to surrender the West Point fort to the British army.
● 1784 - "Empress of China" arrives in Guangzhong (Canton), beginning the China trade.
● 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelly, author of Frankenstein, is born in London, the daughter of anarchist philosopher William Godwin and feminist Mary Wollstonecraft.
● 1799 - Capture of the entire Dutch fleet by British forces under the command of Sir Ralph Abercromby and Admiral Sir Charles Mitchell during the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
● 1800 - Coachman Gabriel Prosser's plans for a slave revolt in Richmond, Va., are betrayed by a pair of house slaves attempting to save their master. Prosser's plan, which involved over 1,000 slaves, would have resulted in the death of all slave-owning whites, but would have spared Quakers, Frenchmen, elderly women, and children.
● 1813 - Battle of Kulm: French forces defeated by Austrian-Prussian-Russian alliance.
● 1813 - Creek War: Creek Red Sticks carried out the Fort Mims Massacre.
● 1819 - The Kickapoo cede their territory, which spans central Illinois, and move to Missouri. In 1670, the Kickapoo lived in what would become Wisconsin. They moved to Illinois and Indiana in 1765. The nation gave up some 3 million acres in 1809, when Indiana's territorial governor, William Henry Harrison, bribed and intimidated the older and more moderate tribal leaders. Continually pushed by white settlers, the Kickapoo move again from Missouri to Kansas. In 1852, they are forced to Texas. Then some move to Mexico while others move to an Oklahoma reservation.
● 1820 - Birth of George F. Root, American sacred music editor and composer. Root helped edit 75 musical collections, as well as composing several hundred original sacred melodies. One of these, JEWELS, is the tune to which is commonly sung the hymn, "When He Cometh."
● 1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded.
● 1836 - The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
● 1838 - The first African-American magazine, "Mirror of Freedom," begins publication in New York City.
● 1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city
● 1856 - Wilberforce University was established in Xenia, Ohio under auspices of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1863, the university was transferred to the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church.
● 1862 - American Civil War: Battle of Richmond: Confederates under Edmund Kirby Smith rout a Union army under General Horatio Wright.
● 1862 - Battle of Altamont-Confederates beat Union forces in Tennessee
● 1862 - The Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.
● 1873 - Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Joseph Land in the Arctic Sea.
● 1885 - 13,000 meteors seen in 1 hour near Andromeda
● 1888 - Lord Walsingham kills 1070 grouse in a single day
● 1893 - Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, was born in Winn Parish, LA
● 1894 - Independent Christian evangelist and educator Bob Jones, Sr. was converted at age 11 to a vital Christian faith. Licensed to preach by the Methodists at 15, Jones maintained a lifelong fundamentalist {literal} view of the Bible. In 1926, at age 32, he founded Bob Jones University.
● 1896 - Eight provinces in the Philippines were declared under martial law by the Spanish Governor General Ramon Blanco. This included the provinces of Batangas, Rizal, Cavite, Nueva Ecija as well as the nearby areas.
● 1897 - The town of Ambiky is captured by France from Menabe in Madagascar.
● 1898 - Shirley Booth, American stage, screen, radio and television actress, was born.
● 1900 - Oregon Labor Press founded.
● 1901 - Birth of civil rights leader Roy Wilkins, St. Louis. Editor of "Crisis" magazine for 15 years. Head of the NAACP in 1955, a post he held for 22 years. During the era of radical civil rights reform, Wilkins personified the more "moderate" African American leader that repeated clashed with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his allies.
● 1906 - Birth of Luisa Moreno, union and civil rights leader. Guatemala.
● 1909 - Burgess Shale fossils discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
● 1914 - Battle of Tannenberg.
● 1916 - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
● 1918 - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, leader of the Bolshevik revolution and first head of Soviet Russia, is shot and wounded by Fanya Kaplan after speaking at a factory in Moscow. Kaplan and her accomplice sister, Dora, are thought to be members of the Social Revolutionary Party, a political party in opposition to Lenin's Bolshevik revolutionaries. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
● 1918 - World War I opponent Prince Hopkins pleads guilty in Los Angeles for violating the Espionage Act, a common charge against war opponents. He is fined $27,000.
● 1918 - Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams was born in San Diego.
● 1922 - Battle of Dumlupinar, final battle in Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)
● 1928 - The Independence of India League was established in India.
● 1935 - Death of French anti-war author Henri Barbusse (“Under Fire”) at age 57. Moscow, U.S.S.R.
● 1941 - During World War II, the Nazis severed the last railroad link between Leningrad and the rest of the Soviet Union achieving enclosure for the Siege of Leningrad to begin. The siege lasted nearly two and a half years.
● 1942 - General strike in response to German "annexation," Luxembourg.
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Alam Halfa begins.
● 1944 - Soviet troops enter Bucharest Romania
● 1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
● 1945 - Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base to set up Allied occupation headquarters in Japan.
● 1951 - The Philippines and the United States signed a defense pact.
● 1956 - Lake Pontchartrain Causeway opens.
● 1956 - White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield HS, Texas
● 1959 - Elections held in South Vietnam give parties loyal to President Diem unanimous control of the National Assembly, when all opposition candidates are forbidden to take their seats. CIA will later OK his assassination when he forgets who owns him.
● 1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany.
● 1961 - 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-J. B. Parsons
● 1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
● 1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation.
● 1964 - Democratic Party convention refuses to seat black protest delegation in place of all-white delegation from state of Mississippi. Outside, 200 protesters rally to oppose Vietnam War. Atlantic City, NJ.
● 1965 - Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland
● 1967 - Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as a Supreme Court justice. Marshall was the first black justice to sit on the Supreme Court.
● 1968 - As Democratic convention riots continue, Chicago police finest invade the headquarters of anti-war presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy, dragging staffers from their beds and beating them. CBS anchor Walter Cronkite will tell prime-time television viewers (quote) - "I want to pack my bags and get out of this city."
● 1968 - Princess Marina laid to rest; Senior members of the Royal Family attend the funeral of Princess Marina, the Duchess of Kent, who died earlier this week.
● 1969 - Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida
● 1971 - Ten empty school busses are blown up in Pontiac, Michigan only eight days before the daily bussing of 8,700 children to achieve racial balance in the city's schools was scheduled to begin.
● 1974 - A Belgrade-Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
● 1974 - World Population Action Plan declared at Bucharest, Rumania.
● 1976 - Notting Hill Carnival ends in riot; More than 100 police officers are taken to hospital after clashes at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.
● 1979 - 1st recorded occurrence-comet hits sun (energy=1 mil hydrogen bombs)
● 1979 - Hurricane David hit the Caribbean island of Dominica. The hurricane took 1,100 lives in its journey through the Caribbean and the eastern U.S. seaboard.
● 1979 - In what may have been the nadir of his ridicule by the media, President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia.
● 1980 - Polish government is forced to sign a 21-point bill of rights allowing workers to organize in independent unions. An unprecedented concession by a Communist government, the move was necessitated by a crippling strike that began in the shipyards two months earlier and spread to other industries.
● 1982 - P.L.O. leader Yasir Arafat leaves his Beirut headquarters after more than a decade for Greece.
● 1983 - The space shuttle Challenger blasted off with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first black American to travel in space.
● 1984 - STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. On the voyage three communications satellites were deployed.
● 1986 - Soviet authorities arrested Nicholas Daniloff
● 1989 - Leona Helmsley was found guilty of income tax evasion by a New York federal jury.
● 1990 - President George H. W. Bush told a news conference that a "new world order" could emerge from the Persian Gulf crisis.
● 1990 - Tatarstan declares independence from the RSFSR.
● 1991 - The Soviet republic of Azerbaijan declared its independence.
● 1992 - 15 people were killed and 31 injured in a Sarajevo market when an artillery shell exploded.
● 1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.
● 1996 - An expedition to raise part of the Titanic failed when the nylon lines being used to raise part of the hull snapped.
● 1997 - British government announces it will surrender the power to intern prisoners (usually political prisoners) without trial in Northern Ireland.
● 1999 - The residents of East Timor overwhelmingly voted for independence from Indonesia. The U.N. announced the result on September 4. Indonesian military still have not acknowledged vote.
● 2001 - Milosevic to face genocide charge; Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic is to be charged with genocide - the most serious of all war crimes.
● 2005 - A day after Hurricane Katrina hit, floodwaters covered 80 percent of New Orleans, looting continued to spread and rescuers in helicopters and boats picked up hundreds of stranded people.
BIRTHS
● 1334 - Pedro of Castile (d. 1369)
● 1377 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (d. 1447)
● 1705 - David Hartley, English philosopher (d. 1757)
● 1720 - Samuel Whitbread, English brewer (d. 1796)
● 1748 - Jacques-Louis David, French painter (d. 1825)
● 1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (d. 1851)
● 1821 - Anita Garibaldi, Brazilian warrior; Garibaldi's wife (War of Tatters) (d. 1849)
● 1839 - Gulstan Ropert, French Catholic prelate (d. 1903)
● 1848 - Andrew Onderdonk, Canadian railway contractor (d. 1905)
● 1852 - Jacobus Henricus van Hoff, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911)
● 1856 - Carle David Tolmé Runge, German physicist (d. 1927)
● 1860 - Isaac Levitan, Russian artist (d. 1900)
● 1871 - Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (d. 1937)
● 1884 - Theodor Svedberg, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971)
● 1893 - Huey Long, American politician (d. 1935)
● 1896 - Raymond Massey, Canadian actor (d. 1983)
● 1898 - Shirley Booth, American actress (d. 1992)
● 1901 - Roy Wilkins, American civil rights leader (1981)
● 1901 - John Gunther, American writer (d. 1970)
● 1906 - Joan Blondell, American actress (d. 1979)
● 1908 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (d. 1991)
● 1912 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
● 1912 - Nancy Wake AC GM, New Zealand-born World War II secret agent
● 1913 - Richard Stone, Bank of Sweden Prize winner (d. 1991)
● 1915 - Robert Strassburg, American composer (d. 2003)
● 1918 - Ted Williams, American baseball player (d. 2002)
● 1918 - Billy Johnson, American baseball player (d. 2006)
● 1919 - Kitty Wells, American singer
● 1922 - Lionel Murphy, Australian politician (d. 1986)
● 1923 - Vic Seixas, American tennis player
● 1925 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French writer and illustrator
● 1927 - Bill Daily, Actor ("I Dream of Jeannie," "The Bob Newhart Show")
● 1927 - Geoffrey Beene, American fashion designer (d. 2004)
● 1928 - Lloyd Casner, American racecar driver and owner (d. 1965)
● 1929 - Elizabeth Ashley, Actress
● 1930 - Warren Buffett, American entrepreneur
● 1930 - Jerry Tarkanian, American basketball coach
● 1931 - Jack Swigert, American astronaut (d. 1982)
● 1933 - Don Getty, Canadian politician
● 1935 - John Phillips, American singer (Mamas and the Papas) (d. 2001)
● 1937 - Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and manufacturer (d. 1970)
● 1939 - John Peel, English radio disc jockey (d. 2004)
● 1939 - Elizabeth Ashley, American actress
● 1941 - Ben Jones, American actor and politician
● 1943 - Robert Crumb, American cartoonist ("Fritz the Cat")
● 1943 - Jean-Claude Killy, French skier
● 1944 - Molly Ivins, American political humorist (d. 2007)
● 1944 - Tug McGraw, American baseball player (d. 2004)
● 1946 - Peggy Lipton, American actress ("The Mod Squad")
● 1946 - Queen Anne-Marie of Greece
● 1947 - Allan Rock, Canadian politician and diplomat
● 1948 - Lewis Black, American comedian ("The Daily Show")
● 1948 - Donnacha O'Dea, Irish poker player and swimmer
● 1949 - Peter Maffay, German musician
● 1949 - Ted Ammon, American financier (d. 2001)
● 1949 - Christopher Collins, American actor and comedian (d. 1994)
● 1949 - Don Boudria, Canadian politician
● 1951 - Timothy Bottoms, American actor
● 1951 - Dana, Irish singer and politician
● 1953 - Robin Harris, American comedian (d. 1990)
● 1953 - Horace Panter, British musician (The Specials and General Public)
● 1953 - Robert Parish, American basketball player and Hall of Fame member
● 1953 - Ron George, American politician
● 1954 - David Paymer, American actor
● 1954 - Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus
● 1957 - Gerald Albright, Jazz saxophonist
● 1958 - Martin Jackson, British drummer (Swing out Sister)
● 1958 - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (d. 2006)
● 1959 - Mark 'Jacko' Jackson, Australian rules footballer and actor
● 1960 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Congressional Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1993)
● 1960 - Guy A. Lepage, Quebec humorist, television host and producer
● 1963 - Michael Chiklis, American actor ("The Shield")
● 1963 - Paul Oakenfold, British disc jockey
● 1964 - Gavin Fisher, British engineer
● 1964 - Robert Clivilles, Music producer
● 1966 - Michael Michele, American actress
● 1968 - Vladimir Malakhov, Russian ice hockey player
● 1968 - Geoff Firebaugh, Country musician
● 1969 - Dimitris Sgouros, Greek pianist
● 1970 - Michael Wong Guang Liang, Chinese Malaysian singer
● 1971 - Lars Frederiksen, American guitarist (Rancid and UK Subs)
● 1972 - Cameron Diaz, American actress
● 1972 - Pavel Nedvěd, Czech footballer
● 1973 - Lisa Ling, American journalist
● 1973 - Leon Caffrey, Country musician (Space)
● 1974 - Javier Otxoa, Spanish cyclist
● 1974 - Mark Gottlieb, American game designer and web columnist
● 1974 - Aaron Barrett, Lead singer/guitarist of Reel Big Fish
● 1975 - Radhi Jaidi, Tunisian footballer
● 1975 - Rich Cronin, Singer (LFO)
● 1976 - Mike Koplove, American baseball player
● 1977 - Shaun Alexander, American football player
● 1977 - Marlon Byrd, American baseball player
● 1977 - Elden Henson, American actor
● 1977 - Kamil Kosowski, Polish footballer
● 1977 - Jens Ludwig, German guitarist
● 1978 - Matt Taul, Rock musician (Tantric)
● 1978 - Swizz Beatz, rapper/producer
● 1979 - Juan Ignacio Chela, Argentine tennis player
● 1979 - Leon Lopez, British actor
● 1979 - Niki Chow, Hong Kong actress and singer
● 1979 - Tavia Yeung, Hong Kong actress
● 1982 - Andy Roddick, American tennis player
● 1982 - Will Davison, Australian racing driver
● 1983 - Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer and actor
● 1983 - Jonne Aaron, Vocalist of the Finnish Band Negative (band)
● 1983 - Gustavo Eberto, Argentine footballer (d. 2007)
● 1984 - Anthony Ireland, Zimbabwean cricketer
● 1985 - Richard Duffy, Welsh footballer
● 1985 - Steven Smith, Scottish footballer
● 1986 - Ryan Ross, American guitarist and lyricist (Panic! At The Disco)
● 1987 - Cameron Finley, Actor
● 1988 - Ernests Gulbis, Latvian tennis player
DEATHS
● 526 - Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
● 1158 - King Sancho III of Castile (b. 1134)
● 1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
● 1483 - King Louis XI of France (b. 1423)
● 1580 - Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy (b. 1528)
● 1617 - Rose of Lima, Peruvian saint (b. 1586)
● 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
● 1723 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist (b. 1632)
● 1751 - Christopher Polhem, Swedish scientist and inventor (b. 1661)
● 1856 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (b. 1811)
● 1879 - John Bell Hood, American Confederate general (b. 1831)
● 1886 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (b. 1836)
● 1896 - Alexei Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian statesman (b. 1824)
● 1906 - Hans Auer, Swiss architect (b. 1847)
● 1907 - Richard Mansfield, American actor and manager (b. 1857)
● 1928 - Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864)
● 1935 - Henri Barbusse, French novelist and journalist (b. 1873)
● 1938 - Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
● 1940 - J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
● 1941 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (b. 1874)
● 1943 - Father Eustaquio van Lieshout, Dutch Catholic priest (b. 1890)
● 1946 - Konstantin Rodzaevsky, Russian fascist (executed) (b. 1907)
● 1946 - Grigory Semyonov, Russian counter-revolutionary (executed) (b. 1890)
● 1949 - Arthur Fielder, English cricketer (b. 1877)
● 1961 - Charles Coburn, American actor (b. 1877)
● 1963 - Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
● 1970 - Del Moore, American comedian (b. 1916)
● 1971 - Nathan Leopold, American murderer (b. 1904)
● 1981 - Vera-Ellen, American actress (b. 1921)
● 1981 - Mohammad-Ali Rajai, Iranian statesman (b. 1933)
● 1985 - Taylor Caldwell, English-born author (b. 1900)
● 1989 - Seymour Krim, American journalist, essayist, and literary critic (b. 1922)
● 1991 - Jean Tinguely, Swiss painter and sculptor (b. 1925)
● 1993 - Richard Jordan, American actor, (b. 1938)
● 1994 - Lindsay Anderson, English film director (b. 1923)
● 1995 - Fischer Black, American economist (b. 1938)
● 1995 - Sterling Morrison, American guitarist (The Velvet Underground) (b. 1942)
● 1996 - Christine Pascal, French actress and director (b. 1953)
● 1999 - Raymond Poïvet, French comics artist (b. 1910)
● 2002 - J. Lee Thompson, English film director (b. 1914)
● 2003 - Charles Bronson, American actor (b. 1921)
● 2003 - Donald Davidson, American philosopher (b. 1917)
● 2004 - Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (b. 1906)
● 2004 - Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
● 2006 - Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
● 2006 - Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
● 2007 - Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
● 2007 - Charles Vanik, American politician (b. 1918)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Agilus
● St. Bononius
● Sts. Felix and Adauctus
● St. Fiacre, Irish hermit, patron of gardeners
● St. Gaudentia
● St. Loaran
● St. Pammachius
● Sts. Pelagius, Arsenius, and Sylvanus
● St. Peter of Trevi
● St. Richard Martin
● St. Rose of Lima, patron of Latin America
● St. Rumon
● Bl. Edward Shelley
● Bl. Richard Leigh
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for August 17 (Civil Date: August 30)
● Afterfeast of the Dormition.
● Martyr Myron of Cyzicus Martyrs Straton, Philip, Eutychian and Cyprian of Nicomedia.
● Martyrs Thyrsus, Leucius and Coronatus, with others at Caesarea in Bithynia.
● Martyrs Paul and his sister Juliana of Syria.
● Martyr Patroclus of Troyes.
● St. Alypius the Iconographer of the Kiev Caves.
● St. Philip, monk of Yankov (Vologda).
● New-Martyr Demetrius of Samarina in Epirus.
● Blessed Theodoretus, Enlightener of the Laps (Solovki).
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos of "Armatia".
● Repose of Schemamonk Onuphrius of Valaam (1912).
● Afghanistan - Children's Day
● Gibraltar - Bank Holiday
● Peru - Saint Rose of Lima's Day.
● Turkey - Victory Day (to commemorate the Battle of Dumlupinar in 1922).
● International Day of the Disappeared
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● England, Channel Is, Northern Ireland, Wales : Bank Holiday – ( Monday )
● Hong Kong : Liberation Day (1945) - ( Monday )
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Additional facts taken from:
On this day in the New York Times
The BBC’s Take on the day
On This Day Website
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
Scope Systems Any Day Website
Roman Catholic Saint of the Day
Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar
Liberal Quotes of the Day taken from The Best Liberal Quotes Ever: Why the Left Is Right Compiled by William P. Martin ©2004
Quotes from the Right of the Day taken from Take Them at Their Words: Startling, Amusing and Baffling Quotations from the GOP and Their Friends, 1994-2004 Compiled by Bruce J. Miller with Diana Maio ©2004
Dumbest Thing Said for the Day taken from 1001 Dumbest Things Ever Said Edited by Steven D. Price ©2004
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